“DEI is garbage,” Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet told a delighted crowd at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
DEI = Didn’t Earn It.
Mamet was at the festival to talk about his recently released Hollywood memoir Everywhere an Oink Oink (my review is here), the far-left Los Angeles Times wrote.
The playwright and screenwriter’s latest “gripe,” wrote the Times, is those stupid “diversity rules that the Academy of Motion Pictures instituted for Oscar-eligible films to help advance the representation of LGBTQ+, women, ethnic minorities and disabled people.”
The idea that the Academy “can’t give you a stupid fucking statue unless you have seven percent of this, eight percent of that … it’s intrusive,” Mamet said.
“The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as…
